Timeline for Is colon in python blocks technically necesary?
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| Apr 11, 2018 at 15:03 | comment | added | Michael Sandman | Here is an encoding that let's you not use colons. Heed the warnings on this repo :) github.com/paradoxxxzero/nocolon | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 19:13 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSoftEng/status/905147012613632002 | ||
| Sep 5, 2017 at 13:42 | history | protected | gnat | ||
| Jan 27, 2017 at 13:51 | vote | accept | Tomáš Zato | ||
| Jan 27, 2017 at 13:31 | answer | added | Lie Ryan | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 13:26 | answer | added | RemcoGerlich | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 12:26 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato |
Exactly, that's why I asked the question - there are two characters, both required to end if and other block statements.
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| Jan 27, 2017 at 12:23 | comment | added | bhan sur |
Speculating. It is as if the line breaks are harder to detect by interpreters/parsers in practice or are there for readability. In LUA you can write if .. then .. end in a single line. So here in python then is substituted by two things a : and a required newline. One of these seems redundant.
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| Jan 27, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | bhan sur | Got it! It's a question around python's syntax design decisions. Sorry, misunderstood it. Thank you for explaining. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 12:03 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato |
I don't know how to phrase it any better. My question basically is, if you could change all python syntax so that it no longer needs colon after if, else, while and so on. If you did that, would python still be language that can be used without ambiguity?
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| Jan 27, 2017 at 11:58 | answer | added | Phoshi | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 11:57 | comment | added | bhan sur | Probably, Can you rephrase parts of the question, so that I can benefit from your insight into this matter, maybe an example? You'd be the best judge, I think I'm clueless about your intention of asking. Do you mean it at the level of interpreter/compiler's parser? Thanks a bunch. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 11:52 | answer | added | Jörg W Mittag | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 11:51 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato | I think you do not understand the question, which is whether the colons are necessary for the syntax to work. Also, no matter what your answer is, it should also contain an explanation. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 11:30 | history | asked | Tomáš Zato | CC BY-SA 3.0 |